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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19
NATURAL GAS.

Good natural gas is being found in
abundant quantities in almost every
section of the state of Kansas, and
where it has not as yet been found
earnest efforts are being made to find
it,with exceptional cases, and Emporia
is notably one of these latter.
We have in our city an organized
company thoroughly capable of ascer-
tanning whether mother earth in this
vicinity has any gas, petroleum, coal
or other desirable resources found sc
abundantly elsewhere, and all this
company asks to enable them to test
the matter is such liberal action by
our city council as will, in case they
strike gas, give them some show to re-
imburse themselves for the money
which they will OF necessity have ta
expend.
This is no more than right, and if
our city government can not or will not
take the work in hand itself and COM
mence boring, it certainly should not
act the part of the dog in the manger
and keep others, who are willing to
risk their capital, from testing the
matter, by refusing them liberal fran
chise.
The discovery of good natural gas in
this vicinity would give the place such
boom as no other one thing could pos
sibly do.
We venture to say that no will dis
pute this assertion.
This being so, all efforts to make
tests should be encouraged instead of
retarded.
Such proposition as the one offered
by the city council at late meeting is
far from encouraging.
No set of men would be willing to
expend large amount of money in
making test borings, and, after discov-
ering gas, again have to expend anoth-
er large amount in laying pipes, and,
just about the time the peo-
pie were beginning to util-
ize it and the company commencing
to obtain some profit from their invest
ment, be forced by their franchise to
turn all their rights, and the property
itself, purchased by their own money,
over to the city.
A much more liberal franchise than
this can be given by our city, and no
one be the worse for it.
Men who are willing to risk money
on this venture should be hailed as the
biggest kind of boomers, and were they
parties from abroad we venture to say
that they would be liable to receive
much more liberal treatment than such
as has been so far proposed.
This is matter that requires imme-
date attention, and if the city
will not or can not take the matter in
hand itself, and no rival company win
offer more liberal terms, then we say
accept the terms as modified from the
original proposition made to the eoun-
Gil, as compromise between the city
and the mining company.
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Of Americas large butchers some mev-
chants OF Liverpool arranged to give a
banquet in his honor at one of the large
hotels. The American hearing of the
intended banquet went to the pro
pr1etor and asked permission to do all
the providi1g for the dinner which was
readily granted. Unknown to the
guests every article of food was Ameri-
can or American production. During
the evening one of the guests in a
speech said that, America was a fine
country but England need never be
afraid OF competition until America
could produce such viands as they had
just partaken;n he said, ''It is impossi-
bic Tor America to produce such Viands
and until she does why need we be
afraid" 1t may be imagined what an
explosion there was when the American
Uniformed the company that everything
they had eaten was American. This
shows the foolishneSs of prejudice, but
IT an Engiishman once gets preiudieed
he's like mule, he will be prejudiced
as long as there is anything left of him.
You may as well try to draw a screw
with hammer as try to dispel a notion
| of an Englishman's head. AS the En-
gllshman does not like Tor thinks he
does mott American meat, the sellers
naturallze it and sell it TO him as Eng
lish, under that name of course he
thinks it splendid. It is no exaggera-
ton to say that thousands of English
men are thus fooled every day. The
writer and his friends have eaten Eng
lish beef side by side with American in
England and the verdict of all has al
ways given the premium to the Ameri-
can article.
This is not mere fancy for unbiased
men have again and again decided in
favor of the American
Every year it is found by the increase
in the import of American beef that
the Englishman slowly begins to real
ize this fact. 1t is only to be hoped
that in time he will naturally turn to
America to relieve his hunger, as the
parent feeds the child, so, when the
parent has become old and the child is
strong and hearty, let the child feed
the parent. J. L. DoBEL.
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American Cattle, what Becomes
Them.

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Them.
LEIPZIG, Germany, May 4th, 1887.
Most of the cattle shipped from
America go to England and most of
these go to Liverpool or Birkenhead,
the city Just across the river from
Liverpool, where there are immense
slaughter houses along the wharves to
receive them. The writer obtained
permission to go over one of the largest
Of these slaughter houses, which, be-
sides being slaughter house, had the
head until killed. No cattle leave this
building alive, and all must die within
six weeks of entering it. There you
see few wild Texans, but before ar
irving they have as q rule become more
tractable than they are on their native
range. One OF the men remarked,
pointing to pure bred Texan ''Them
cattle with the long 'orns is terrible
lard to manage
Nearly all the cattle, with few ex-
ceptions, are the finest stock of Ameri-
ca, here is split the the finest blood of
America. 1t is said that nowhere in
the world can you see such large
herd of fine cattle together as you can
in one of these slaughter houses. Let
that be as it may, suffice is to say that
the writer felt proud to think that he
and they belonged to the same country.
A great part of this beef is consumed
in London; from five to ten express
freight trains loaded with meat only,
leave the slaughter houses every night
for the city.
The English were very prejudiced
and are still more or less, against
American beef. To show that the
prejudiee Is without foundation is iIlga-
trated bY the following anecdote:
Upon the arrival b ENGLAND Of one
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County scat Eighfa.

]. R. Graham returned Tuesday
from Dodge City, where he has been on
business. He informed our reporter
Of the status of affairs in the county
seat fights in the western part of the
state.
In Stanton county, Johnston City has
carried off the honors. In Grant coun-
ty the fight is very strong between
Ulysses and Cincinnati. In Hamilton
county Kendall and Coolidge are fight
ing Syracuse, Kendall working for
Coolidge. In Marshall county Santa
Fe leads. In Gray county Montezuma,
Cimmaron and Ingalls, are all fighting
hard. In Garfield county Ravenna
and Eminence are rivals, Ravenna
leading. In Morton, Richfield and
Frisco are bucking each other. In
Carney county the fight is most bitter
and things are in a badly mixed state.
The citizens of the contesting towns
carry guns around with them and are
on the shoot.
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Wfser.LOngIey.

A special friend of Mr.. Frank Wiser
last Tuesday showed US a handsomely
printed invitation card which read as
follows:
"Mr. r. G.. Hersey requests your
presence at the marriage of his niece,
Evelyn Longley to E. Frank Wiser,
Tuesday, May "a, st. James Church at
$50 o'clock. Receptions at o'clock
Maplehurst, Maitland, Ont"
Mr.. Wiser is well known in En-
poria, and has many warm friends here
who will rejoice to learn of his happy
prospects. They will hope ere long to
have the pleasure of greeting Mr..
Wiser and his lovely bride in Emporia
and extending their congratulations in
narSOn
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At Chieaeo

strong 1t an advance of SC, later ruled easy,
with the advance lost; pigs, 3.700A.46; light,
e4z51496; rOugh packing, S4y6104S5; mixed
SIS.
CArrLE-Receipts, 1000; market SLOW and
easier; beeves, e400HA6Ss cows E1003-s5s
etockers and feeders, e3g0040.
eHKEP-Reeefpts, 800; market slow and
steady: best shoFn. A-098425s inferior to
fancy, e3.W0815; lambs, ez-500dy00.
WHRAr-After the first hours trading prices
were allowed to take their own course and
wheat became easy; No. red cash, 81 Ills:
June 50 HIS; July, s. 1-16-
CORE-Aaxket easy; No. mixed cash, SSk;
June ak: July, IA.
OAfs-Marksteasier;N No. mixed cash, 10
June, - Gle; July. - 5-16-
WHISKY-SLlo.
Poax-Easy; cash and June. seI.sQ
LARD-Easler; cash, S6J571s; june &c; July6
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An ExeelIent Well.

H. Parkman, in digging a well on his
Sunny Slope Farm, two and a half
miles west of the city, on line with
Twelfth Avenue, struck rock at depth
of thirty feet. Not getting a suffi-
Gent supply, he determined to go
through the rock. Accordingly the
drilling of an eight inch hole was COM
menced, and in three days he went
down forty feet through the rock, and
the water at once arose in the well
forty feet-as good and pure water as
ever was drank in this or any other
state. Ten hours steady pumping
made no perceptible difference in the
supply, which, Mr.. Parkman considers,
is absolutely inexhaustible. A forty
foot rise of water in such well rem
ders an artesian well probable thing
to be obtained in this city.
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IT took nearly eight bundles of paper
to print last Saturday evenings edition
of THE NEWS. OF this number about
three and half bundles were sent
abroad by our Board of Trade as being
one of the best mediums to speak a
good word for the city of EmpOria. No
more forcible argument as to city's
prosperity can be used than a sample
copy of its best newspaper, with an ad-
vertising patronage that reflects the
business energy of its citizens. A city s
standing can be pretty accurately esti-
mated by the patronage bestowed on its
newspapers. Judging by the advertis-
ing columns of THE News, every per-
son who receives a sample copy viii
form good opinion of our city.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

You are feeling depressed, your appe-
tite is poor, you are bothered with head
ache, you are fidgetty, nervous, and
generally out of sorts, and want to brace
up. Brace up, but not with stimulants,
for their basis very cheap, bad whisky,
and which stimulate you for an hour,
and then leave you in worse condition
than before. What you want is an
Alternative that will purify your blood,
start healthy action of Liver and Kid
neys, restore your vitality, and give re-
newed health and strength. Such a
medicine you will find in Electric Bit
tiers, and only so cents a bottle at b.
Wheldon's Drug Store.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

Probably no one thing has caused
such a general revival of trade at B
Wheldon's Drug Store as their giving
away to their customers of so many
free trial bottles of DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption. Their
trade is simply enormous in this very
valuable article from the fact that It
always cures and never disappoints
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Group, and all throat and lung diseases
quickly cured. You can test it before
buying by getting trial bottle free,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

GENERAL Master Workman Powder:
ly has done agood thing for the Knights
of Labor in issuing an Official circular
calling upon the order.of knights of
Labor everywhere in this country to
celebrate the Fourth of July appropri-
ately. The cultivation of a spirit Of pa
triotism is eommendable. The circu-
lar is not in the nature of an absolute
order, but its suggestions are timely
and ought to be needed. Mr.. Powder
ly indirectly makes a fight on the red
flag Of anarchy, by excluding it from
all places in the Knights procession.
He says: I'm the line of march, on
your stands and public places use only
one fiag-the stars and stripes. Show
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SAC Reunloal Grounds.

Bids will be received by the under
signed, secretary of the committee, to
whom was referred the matter of re-
ceiving proposals and recommending to
the next encampment G. A. R. of Kan
sas, permanent location for reunion
grounds, till July 20, 1887, at which
time or as soon thereafter as ordered by
the chairman, the committee will meet
for the purpose of considering the sew
eral bids. Other Kansas papers please
copy.
w. A. GEBHARDT, Secretary,
May 5, 1887. Ellsworth, Kansas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

WE have a warm admiration for the
Social Science club of Kansas and Mis-
souri,, and reprint with considerable
pride the following beautiful example
of mixed metaphor in which one of the
Social Science ladies so wildly portrays
the present condition of our unhappy
country: 1T is not foreign foe that
threatens her peace and happiness, nor
the clouds of a religious war
that are stirring her life blood
up to fever heat, but it is the
mutterings of discomfort, of intense
and bitter hatred of her institutions
which come bubbling up in tones of
thunder from the hearts of millions of
her people. kansas City Journal.
When it is known that Mrs. NJ. A.
Bingham, the wife of Gen. Bingham,
G. S. A., Is referred to, the above may
be understood as not being the utter
ance of Chicago anarchist, but sim
ply the wailings of an unreconstruct-
ed female rebel. la.sr'
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19
LYON COUNTY INSTITUTES.
TO he Held I'm EmpOria June 18th
KnEu RRH,

TO he Held in EmpOria June 18th 70
July Sth.
This years session promises to be I'M
usually interesting under the guidance
of Prof. ]. N. Wilkinson, assisted by
Professors Johnson and Stephens.
The Institute will be held for the
first time during the month of June as
it is a settled fact that the teachers can
do twice as much work then as they can
in the sultry months of July and Au-
gust. A cordial invitation is extended
to all. The following is the pro-
gramme:
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

THE st. Louis people have extended
an invitation to President Cleveland to
visit that city during the meeting of
the old soldiers of the Grand Army of
the Republic. If the president has any
brain whatever left in his unwieldy
carcass he will refuse the invitation, or
postpone the visit until after the veter-
ans have left. We predict that if he
does attend the G. A. R. meeting that
he will receive many more groans and
Kisses than he will cheers from the boys
whom he has made so light of and has
dubbed as paupers, and we doubt much
if corporal's guard of the whole as
sembly would be willing to parade for
the benefit of his corpulency.
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THE prospect for prohibition in Tex
as is considered very encouraging. Two
thirds of the members of the last legis-
lature voted for it-lSO papers pub
lished in the state are said to favor it.,
and only thirty-six to oppose it. Three
fourths of the members of the State
Medical association, at their meeting
in Austin, declared in favor of it, and
the State Homeopathic association, at
their meeting ut Fort Worth, endorsed
it with but one dissenting vote.
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"A FIREMAN, who had rendered eff
Gent service in fighting the fire-fiend in
a western city, recently died. His
companions sent a floral pillow, on
which was inscribed: lie has gone to
his last fire." The widow naturally
objected to such suggestive personal
illusions, and ''firedn the tribute.
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At 81. Ouia.

81 LOUIst Nay Is.
wHKAr-Market weak and lower; No. red
cash, slK; May, s6n; June, S41; July. slx0
CoRE-Market firn and higher: No. 2 mixed
cash, 80; May, 3I1<; June. 5TIs: July, %.
OAFe-MRrket dull and easy: No. mixed
cash, 25ks7%; May, 271<.
PoRK9Duii: small lots Of irregular new
e15.T5-
TARD-oufet e64s.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY, G-0S.
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Monthly RnGertainInents.

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Y. Ms
G. A, at their last business meeting
decided to hold monthly entertain
ments, 80 as to promote the social
work of the Association. They will
consist of concerts and socials with
ices, berries, sc. The first of these en-
tertainments will be a concert next
Wednesday evening. Programme viii
be announced later. All are cordially
invited.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

If you are seeking pleasant place
to live, or are looking for a business To-
cation, you cannot miss it by coming to
Emporia. If you are in doubt about it,
come and see for Yourself. A weeks
visit will do more to convince you that
this is the garden spot of America than
anything else. 1t will be a good idea
to bring your wife along; she will want
to know all about it, and can help you
to decide.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

The inst case called was that of the
State Of Kansas VS.. Id. Browning,
charged with forgery; Faighan & Kel-
logg for the state and Joe Smith for
the defense. Following is the jury:
w. II. Hoffman, G. d. Burdick, J. Rees,
Miles Common, A. T. Stout, T. ]. Bur
ton, C Shafer, John Cupp, John Wells,
A. Laughlin, e. Richter, T. Stone.
The jury returned verdict of guilty.
He viii receive his sentence in few
days.
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THIS is the way it is done in Massa.
chusetts, if we may believe an eastern
contemporary. The lobbyist laughing.
ly hands the legislature copy of his
pet measure, and in jocular manner
bets him five hundred dollars that he
will not vote for that measure on its
final passage. The jocose legislator
laughingly takes the bet, and few
days later calls around and laughingly
asks for his money. He gets it.
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ACCORDING to Edward Atkinson,
800, OOO,O 900 worth of eggs are annually
consumed in this country, value in ex-
cess of that of the yearly production
of iron, wool and silver combined. Sc
let us cherish the hen, for she is fruit
full source of national wealth, great
ness and power.
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PENSION COMMISSIONER BLACK has
given orders that preferences shall in
all cases be given to soldiers who have
served in the Union army, or the wild
ows and orphans of soldiers, in making
appointments to the clerical force Of
the pension office.
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ANOTHER natural gas well has been
discovered at Fort Scott at the depth of
276 feet. The gas bearing sandstone
has been penetrated two feet, giving a
continuing flow. a few feet deeper
perforation, it is confidently expected,
will greatly increase the flow.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

Sunday morning, May is. 1887, after
an illness of ten days with malarial
fever, Miss Fannie Shamleffer, daugh-
ter of Mayor. Shamleffer, of Council
Grove. She was young lady of I'M
usual fine abilities and prime favorite
! in her native CITY.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-19

OUR readers at a distance will find
the names of all the leading real estate
agents of Emporia in our advertising
columns. They are all reliable and
trustworthy, and business entrusted to
their care will receive prompt and care
full attention.
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At Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, May IS.
~The Kansas City Live Stock Market is
reported especially for the ENPORIA DAILY
NEWS by FISH, KICK q CO., Exchange Build
ing, Kansas City Stock Yards.
CATTLE-Receipts, 100: market steady
at about yesterdays prices.
Ho0s-Receipts, LOO; market active and
strong: bulk, N.4504.55.
The Daily Indicator reports: WHEAT
Market steady; No. 3 red cash, q bid; June,
2 soft cash. % asked.
CORN-Market strong mo. mixed cash, 35x |:
June, 34x; July, SAX; No. 2 white cash, S6 bid,
OATs-No. mixed cash, 80 asked.
RENO. red cash. no bids, nor offer
iuRa.
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THE plate telegraph paper in this
city came out each day last week with
news of the Marlborough trial of the
day previous, obtained from Kansas
City specials sent out from THE NEWS
office the NIGHT before
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to the world that no matter where the
Knights of Labor citizen was born, he
respects and honors the United States
flag" He also calls the attention of
the Knights to the considera-
ton of the land question, and asks them
to pass resolutions declaring that the
holding of from fifty to sixty million
acres of public domain by aliens is sim
full and un-American, that the
alien landlord should be made to let go,
that every acre of land acquired by
chicanery or fraud is an acre stolen,
that good, plain, honest and simple
law shall govern the holding of land,
and that the land must be held free
from sharks and spectators, whether
native or alien. The Henry George
NOV ement, the Guilford Miller case,
the questions arising out of it, Presi-
dent Cleveland's suggestion that some
legislation on the public domain may
be desirable, and the circular by Mr..
Powderly bearing on the subject OF
land, are significant, and indicate that
the land question must come up fol-
consideration in this country. The
greed for land has aroused public atten'
tion, and the many begin to see that
they must protect themselves against
the few, or they and their posterity
will be landless. The earth was moi
made exclusively for the benefit OF
sharks, spectators and syndicates.-
X. C. Star.
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The following from a Wichita ex-
change is not particularly fiattering
language for a paper published in its
own city to use.
although Kansas is noted for its
generally healthy climate, " says ply
stefan, 81 do not think that at present
Wichita is the most healthy place in the
world. For the first time in my life, 1
am bothered with a headache. If a per-
son sleeps in his room with the windows
up, he wakes up in the morning with
his system full of malaria and a horrible
headache. OF course it is out of the
question to sleep with the windows
closed. SuffOcation would be sure
to ensue. 1 like Wichita and I like
Wichita people, but am not particular
ly in love with the present sanitary con-
dition Of the city. The authorities have
ordered the streets and alleys to be
cleaned, but the order is simply over
looked. The alleys are in a most filthy
condition, some of them emit stencil
that is at once nauseating and danger
GUS to health. The sun blisters the
scraps of meat and vegetables thrown
from back doors, and the wind serves
to watt the effluvum to all parts of the
city. The sewer in the southern part
of the city is a nuisance that can be
smelled for mile. l am no chronic
kicker, but do want to see a more
healthy condition of the city,"
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AT the Grand Army encampment at
st. Louis in September it is proposed to
hold a reunion of the surviving war
governors of the states which did not Sc
cede. 'War governors" are those who
held Office at any time from April, 1851,
to April, 1865, in states classed as
loyal" Few war governors are now
living. A partial list contains the names
of John G. Downey, California; Leland
Stanford, California; F. F Low, Cal
ifornia; Samuel j. Kirkwood,
Iowa; VIM. M. Stone, Iowa
Richard ]. Oglesby, Illinois; Charles
Robinson, Kansas; Thomas Carney,
Kansas; Samuel }. Crawford, Kansas;
Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota; Austin
Blair, Michigan; Henry II. Grape,
Michigan; Augustus w. Bradford
Maryland; Alvin Saunders, Nebraska;
Nathaniel S. Berry, New Hampshire;
Joel Barker, New Jersey; Andrew J..
Curtin, Pennsylvania; VIM. Sprague,
Rhode Island; James Y. Smith, Rhode
Island; Edward Solomon, Wisconsin,;
j. T. Lewis, Wisconsin.